Graduation

Contact Registrar at registrar@hccc.edu for questions about your graduation application, course completion towards earning your degree, diplomas, and related topics.

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Contact Student Life and Leadership at graduationevents@hccc.edu for questions related to the Commencement ceremony, graduate portraits, graduation celebration events and related topics.

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Contact the HCCC Bookstore for questions about caps and gowns. Visit the Journal Square Campus Bookstore at 162 Sip Avenue to pick up your cap and gown.

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It is required that you submit the free Graduation Application. This document collects the name that you wish to be displayed on your diploma and confirms your degree program. Please indicate in the box of the graduation application how you would like your name to appear on the diploma. This is the same way it will appear in the Commencement program.

If you are unsure if you have submitted your Graduation Application, or for any questions related to this Graduation Application, please email Assistant Registrar Upasana Sethi-Pagan at usethi-pagan@hccc.edu.

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Click here for the Summer 2022 Graduates Applicant List. Please note that this list is only accessible to individuals with HCCC login credentials. For any questions regarding the list, please email registrar@hccc.edu.

Please note, in order to complete your degree and graduate from HCCC, you must pass all degree course requirements. Being a Graduate Applicant and participating in a graduation ceremony DOES NOT automatically mean that you have completed your degree and graduated from the college.

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Click here for the Spring 2022 Graduate Candidate List. This list of students have completed their degree requirements as per the Registrar's Office. Please note that this list is only accessible to individuals with HCCC login credentials. For any questions regarding the list, please email registrar@hccc.edu.

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Spring and Summer 2022 Graduates:
Once all final grades have been submitted and your degrees have been confirmed, Registrar will email you with the status of your diploma. Please note that you must return any borrowed technology (such as a Chromebook or Hot Spot) before you can receive your diploma.

Fall 2021 Graduates and all prior years:
Your diplomas are available for pick up at the Journal Square Campus A Building, 70 Sip Avenue, Jersey City. Please bring your State ID. Note that you must return any borrowed technology (such as a Chromebook or Hot Spot) before you can receive your diploma. You can pick it up or request to have it mailed. Diplomas that are mailed may take a minimum of 2-3 weeks to arrive.

For any other questions or concerns about your diploma, email registrar@hccc.edu.

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Learn about HCCC’s Alumni Services at https://www.hccc.edu/community/alumni-services/index.html

Join the Alumni Association: https://www.hccc.edu/community/alumni-services/alumni-update-form.html

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Students are allowed and encouraged to wear as many cords and stoles with their cap and gown as they have earned. Different cords and stoles distributed by the college are:

• Alpha Alpha Alpha - Students inducted into HCCC's Chapter of Alpha Alpha Alpha will receive a dark blue and silver cord.
• Alpha Sigma Lamdba - Students inducted into HCCC's Chapter of Alpha Sigma Lambda will receive a white stole with the ASL logo embroidered on it.
• ESL - Students who started at HCCC as English as a Second Language learners and completed the path to graduation receive a dark purple cord.
• Kente Graduation – Students recognized as part of the Kente Graduation receive a Kente cloth stole handcrafted from Ghana.
• Lavender Graduation – Students recognized as part of the Lavender Graduation ceremony receive a rainbow cord.
• National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS) – Inductees of NSLS receive a black and silver cord..
• Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) – Inductees of PTK receive a gold stole with the PTK logo and a gold tassel.
• Sigma Kappa Delta (SKD) – Inductees of SKD receive a black and gold cord.

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The Office of Student Life and Leadership aims to schedule opportunities for Graduate Portraits during the Fall semester and the Spring semester. Students who take their portraits will receive their proofs with the option to purchase photo packages. Information regarding dates will be sent to you from graduationevents@hccc.edu.

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Herff Jones is offering HCCC coupon codes for class rings! To order your college ring please log on to: https://collegerings.herffjones.com/

PROMO CODES:

• $100 OFF Austria and Extreme Silver: ENTER CODE: HJRING100
• $125 OFF White Ultrium Ring: ENTER CODE: HJRING125
• $300 OFF 10K Gold Ring: ENTER CODE: HJRING300
• $400 OFF 14K Gold Ring: ENTER CODE: HJRING400
• $500 OFF 18K Gold Ring: ENTER CODE: HJRING500

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Hudson County Community College’s Communications Department needs your help in identifying unique and exceptional graduate student stories to use in publicity for the upcoming Commencement ceremony as well as future marketing materials.

HCCC’s Communications Department will be pitching these stories to media during the Commencement season and would be pleased to hear from students willing to be interviewed. Some past noteworthy stories covered by media included students who:

• Were age 50 or older while studying at HCCC
  
• Had served in the military
  
• Had relatives on HCCC staff or of HCCC alumni
  
• Were family members graduating together
  
• “Beat the odds” (earned a degree despite an obstacle, disability, etc.)

For more information please contact the Communications Department at 201.360.4060 or email at communications@hccc.edu or visit the Tell Us Your Story page.

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Watch the December 2020 Virtual Commencement Ceremony, Click Here

Summer II 2019-December 2020 Graduates, to download your Virtual Commencement slide, or Click Here

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Watch the May 2021 Virtual Commencement Ceremony: https://youtu.be/yiQft_ekRio.

Graduates, to download your Virtual Commencement slide, or Click Here

Access the May 2021 Commencement Program,  Click Here

For the May 2021 Grad Walk photos, Click Here

To watch the May 2021 Grad Walks livestreams visit https://www.facebook.com/hcccedu/videos/

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To watch the December Graduate Receptions, visit: https://www.youtube.com/c/HudsonCountyCollege

To view photos from the December Graduate Receptions, visit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hudsonccc/albums/

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